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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 8-11
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Secondly, Consider what the Lord makes the swaddling-band of the sea; some strong thing no doubt: the Text tells us it is but a dark cloud or a mist arising from the sea; these are the bands with which God binds this mighty giant the sea.
Secondly, Consider what the Lord makes the swadling-band of the sea; some strong thing no doubt: the Text tells us it is but a dark cloud or a mist arising from the sea; these are the bands with which God binds this mighty giant the sea.
Hence Observe, The Lord can make weak and improbable means to do and effect the greatest things.
One would think we should have heard of some other matter, even of adamantine chains, to bind the Sea with; but we see mists and fogs and clouds shall do it, if God will. Mists are but vapours gathered up and thickened a little in the air. Is it not a wonder, that they should get the upper hand of, and bind the sea? so that as soon as a mist riseth in the air, by and by the sea is still. There is indeed a natural reason why, as calms are seldom without mists, so mists can never be without calms; because mists cannot endure nor live in the wind, much less in a storm, but must presently be dispersed or blown away by it; yet 'tis much, that a mist, or a fog, or a cloud in the air, should have a binding force upon the sea. This was the Lords work, to keep the sea quiet in its place. And having considered this, we are called to consider another Work of God, whereby he keeps the sea from roving out of its place, in the two verses following.
One would think we should have heard of some other matter, even of adamantine chains, to bind the Sea with; but we see mists and fogs and clouds shall do it, if God will. Mists are but vapours gathered up and thickened a little in the air. Is it not a wonder, that they should get the upper hand of, and bind the sea? so that as soon as a mist riseth in the air, by and by the sea is still. There is indeed a natural reason why, as calms are seldome without mists, so mists can never be without calms; because mists cannot endure nor live in the wind, much less in a storm, but must presently be dispersed or blown away by it; yet 'tis much, that a mist, or a fog, or a cloud in the air, should have a binding force upon the sea. This was the Lords work, to keep the sea quiet in its place. And having considered this, we are called to consider another Work of God, whereby he keeps the sea from roving out of its place, in the two verses following.